16 November 2016
Conference Poster: ¨Dynamics of Hybridity - the SADC Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre¨at Þjóðarspegillinn 2016
Anne Flaspöler, postdoctoral researcher at the EDDA Centre and UNU-GEST, presented her initial findings of her field research at the Social Sciences’ Conference organised by the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) of the University of Iceland on the 28th October 2016.
28 October 2016
Gendered value chain analysis as a research methodology: small scale fisheries by lake Tanganyika
A conference session on gendered dimensions and gender roles at the Þjóðarspegill conference held at the University of Iceland 28 October includes a talk presented by UNU-GEST on gendered value chain analysis as a research methodology within the social sciences and as an applied tool for informing development interventions.
28 October 2016
"Playing the Gender Card": gendered dimensions within the rural water supply sector in Namibia
Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir, UNU-GEST Head of Research presents a paper on the gendered dimensions within the rural water supply sector in Namibia at Þjóðarspegillinn conference 28 October
10 October 2016
United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon visits Iceland
The staff of the UNU-GEST programme met with the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, in Iceland on Saturday 8th October. UNU-GEST Director, Dr. Irma Erlingsdóttir, underlined the emphasis of gender equality issues as an essential part of the sustainable development agenda and as a precondition for its successful implementation and social justice in general.
4 October 2016
UNU-GEST Researchers in Nordic Africa Days 2016
Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir, UNU-GEST Head of Research and Pétur Waldorff, UNU-GEST Senior Researcher organized and convened a panel on gender research and gender-responsive methodologies at Nordic Africa Days 2016 held in Uppsala, Sweden September 22-24.
6 September 2016
Fellows present research findings in an open seminar
The UNU-LRT fellows reached an important milestone in the six-month training programme this week when they presented the results of their individual research projects in an open seminar at the research campus of the Agricultural University of Iceland. As always, the individual projects spanned a range of topics including: assessment of the impact of cultivation on soil organic carbon; assessment of the impact of tree species on soil fertility in farmers’ fields in Niger; studies on the degradation of rangelands in Kyrgyzstan and Lesotho; and research on the effect of sand mines in Northern Ghana on the livelihood of local people and the ability of authorities to improve the situation with restoration interventions.